Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Answers to Panyushkin

A flashmob. Wrote this a while ago, decided to finally post it.


1. What do you do when you are scared? Say, a plane drops into an air pocket, an artillery bombardment starts, a cholera epidemic... In such cases, I take reasonable but completely insufficient measures (fasten my seatbelt, hide in a trench, wash my hands), and then I pray. What about you?

I'm often scared for no reason, so I've gotten used to it somehow (although you can't really get used to it). I convince myself that there's no reason to be afraid, if nothing can be done anyway, and it's just my imperfect brain inventing fears for itself out of reasons that don't exist in reality.

2. Do you not want immortality? Or do you want it, but hope to achieve it through pragmatic methods, such as new medical technologies, for example? Or do you want it, but know it's unattainable, so there's no point in wasting time?

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Iceland — 22, Day 10 — Camping at Strandarkirkja

No, our tradition wasn't broken. Yes, a miracle happened. Yes, I use the word “miracle” too often. No, I won't stop.

The miracle wasn't that the campsite was excellent, with hot water and electricity, but that for the first and only time it was FREE. Where did such a fluctuation in the space-time continuum come from, you might ask?

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Iceland — 23, day 11 — death grip

It would seem that this is it. The hardships and torments are behind us, there isn't much further to ride, the weather is excellent, and ahead lies the night and day life of Reykjavik, sex, drugs & rock’n’roll.

But no, the death grip of this harsh land won't let go. The headwind is so strong that it's barely possible to cover 10 kilometers in an hour. The exhaustion accumulated over two weeks suddenly descended upon us with all its weight. The landscape no longer inspires: maybe it's too monotonous, maybe we're just sick of admiring nature, or maybe the monotone pedaling against the wind is just pressing too hard on an exhausted brain.

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